The career of Stanford pediatric infectious disease researcher and physician Yvonne Maldonado is featured in this video and blog post.
Physicians Christina Mangurian and Carolyn Rodriguez discuss the lack of women in leadership positions in medicine, and what we can do about it.
As a third-year medical student, Luisa Valenzuela Riveros, MD, was eager to begin participating in hospital rounds. But, as she told the audience at a Diversity and Inclusion Forum held Friday at Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital Stanford, one of her early case presentations didn’t go at all as she had hoped.
Stanford's Department of Radiology boosts its diversity effort, focusing on education, diversity in leadership and inclusion.
"We have the opportunity to lead in meeting the needs and affirming the value and importance of our LGBTQ community," Dean Lloyd Minor said at campus event.
Stanford's Leah Backhus cofounded the Artemis Medical Society to support women and girls of color who are interested in medical careers.
My childhood is shaped by sand and waves, and the steady memory of boogie boarding with my mother, falling onto wrinkled towels damp with the …
Biomedicine depends on the free flow of people and ideas, Lloyd Minor, MD, dean of Stanford's medical school, wrote in a commentary appearing today on …
Perhaps you heard about this recent incident: On a flight, Tamika Cross, MD, was blocked from helping a fellow passenger experiencing a medical crisis because the …
In 2014, Hannah Valantine, MD, left Stanford for a newly created position at the National Institutes of Health: chief officer of scientific workforce diversity. On Thursday, she …
From the moment I walked through the door this morning, it was clear that Stanford's Medicine X is not your typical medical conference. Colored lighting gives the conference room a …
The fact that men vastly outnumber women as leaders — in positions ranging from senior professors to deans — in top academic medical schools is likely news …
With evangelical fervor, Freeman Hrabowski, PhD, president of the University of Maryland-Baltimore County (UMBC), challenged the School of Medicine to tackle inequality throughout its ranks, an …
When Ruth Simmons went away to college from a poor section of Houston, she didn't have enough money to buy clothes. Now, after serving as the …
The School of Medicine's quest to boost all forms diversity stems from two distinct, yet related, imperatives, Dean Lloyd B. Minor, MD, told the 100-or-so …
In 1971, just three years after the death of Martin Luther King, Jr., ninth-grader Lloyd B. Minor was bussed from his white Little Rock, Arkansas …
